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Keystone Books are intended to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. They are accessible, well-researched explorations into the history, culture, society, and environment of the Keystone State as part of the Middle Atlantic region.

Portions of this book have been previously published in somewhat different form:

The Prologue incorporates material from “Stage-Struck,” in “The Documentary Imagination (Part Two),” ed. Tom Fricke and Keith Taylor, special issue, Michigan Quarterly Review 45, no. 1 (2006).

Chapter 3 incorporates material from “Conestoga,” in “Due North,” special issue, Crab Orchard Review 17, no. 2 (2012).

Chapter 15 incorporates material from “Players,” Common-place 8, no. 4 (2008). Courtesy of Common-place, http://common-place.org.

The excerpt from Indians, by Arthur Kopit, is copyright © 1969 by Arthur Kopit. Reprinted by permission of Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stainton, Leslie, 1955– , author.

Staging ground : an American theater and its ghosts / Leslie Stainton.

p. cm

“Keystone books.”

Summary: “Through both history and personal memoir, examines the role of the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the shaping of American identity from colonial times to the present”—Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-271-06365-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Fulton Opera House—History.

2. Theater—Pennsylvania—Lancaster—History.

3. Theater and society—United States—History.

4. Stainton, Leslie, 1955– .

5. Yecker, Blasius, 1834–1903.

I. Title.

PN2277.L362F857 2014

792.09748’15—dc23

2013049311

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Frontispiece: Yecker’s Fulton Opera House, ca. 1897 (fig. 21). Courtesy of Barbara Dorwart Lehman.